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Reactivated British extreme legends CARCASS have been confirmed for next year's installment of the Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place July 31 - August 2, 2008 in Wacken, Germany. Also scheduled to appear are IRON MAIDEN (headliners), CHILDREN OF BODOM, AVANTASIA, KREATOR and SONATA ARCTICA.

Commented CARCASS bassist/vocalist Jeff Walker: "Well, they said it would never happen. In fact I said it would never happen. Then I noticed no one pays attention to what I say anyway and I sounded like an idiot...

"Summer 2008 will be the twentieth anniversary since the release of CARCASS' first studio album. It will be fourteen years since we last played live.

"We've decided to exhume the old corpse next summer at Wacken. The timing is purely coincidental — it's been a long journey to get to this point where myself, Bill Steer [guitar] and Mike Amott [guitar; also of ARCH ENEMY] have enough common desire again to make it possible. We're finally conceding to the demand that seems to be at an all time high and doesn't appear to be going away any time soon. Any past reasons we may have had for not wanting to do it, or thinking it was impossible, have simply dissipated in the face of overwhelming interest in us performing THOSE riffs for a generation of believers who never had the opportunity back in the day. We could say we're doing it for 'the kids' — but fuck that ! We're doing it 'cos it will be fun again to play the classic CARCASS tunes!!

"Of course, it would seem inappropriate for us to contemplate to do this without Ken Owen [drums], but I assure you he'll be there, and we'll push some sticks in his hands and make him play, plus we'll have a killer drummer to sit in and play HIS parts.

"Myself, Jeff Walker on bass and vocals, 'the semi-legendary' Bill Steer and Mike Amott on lead guitar and Daniel Erlandsson [ARCH ENEMY], filling in for Ken on drums look forwards to mutilating your hearing.

"And if we don't do it? Who else will overshadow the LED ZEPPELIN reunion?

"Ha!

"Prepare to rot and roll."

In a recent interview with MTV.com, Michael Amott stated about the possibility of CARCASS reunion, "It seems like it never goes away — like this ghost that's always hanging over me. It's nice. It's a pleasant ghost, because [CARCASS are] a band I'm proud of, because it was one of the better bands to come out of that style of music at that time. The band itself seems bigger now than when we packed it in [back in 1995]. I can't believe it."

"With [CARCASS], you have four people who have all moved on and do different things now," he said. "For the last few years, I've been quite open about [my desire to reunite CARCASS]. ... It's not a question of, 'Do I want to play this kind of music?,' because I still totally love metal. I would love to do it."

The ex-members of CARCASS hooked up in 2006 to rehearse (as first reported by BLABBERMOUTH.NET on September 18) for the first time in many years.

"We thought, 'Let's just try to get our schedules together, jam a little bit, and see if it's even feasible,' " Amott said. "The question always comes up in interviews, and we kind of all became intrigued ourselves, if it would actually work. So we met up, rehearsed for about a week, and by the end of the week, it sounded amazing."

He added, "The band wouldn't set out to write or record new material, because "the old stuff was just that good. It would just be a blast to go out and play those — dare I say it — classic tunes again, those riffs. It would be fun. Bill's guitar playing was amazing — he was one of my heroes before I joined the band. So yeah, I would love to do it again. I love that band, love the music. We'll see — maybe it would shut people up. Let's hope the CARCASS can come back."

Maiden is headlining, Kreator is also confirmed. I really don't like CoB that much anymore, but they're confirmed, and regardless their shows have always been really fun.
I'm thinking I'm gonna visit my friend in Germany and go to this. I've always wanted to say I've been to Wacken so why not.

Wacken is a festival right, where you camp out over night?

Looks like I'll be goin to Wacken again then!

Just read this on blabbermouth. Cant fucking wait. Hopefully they will do a warm up show in england somewhere before this gig.

Yeh that would be great. I'd travel fucking anywhere in Europe to catch Carcass, let alone just England. Well... I say I would go anywhere in Europe, but I probably wouldn't.

They better not do fucking download. That would be a huge joke if they did.

threak wrote:They better not do fucking download. That would be a huge joke if they did.

Uhh, why?

fuck. maybe i should go.

pbb meet in wacken?

<THe_FeAR> wrote:

threak wrote:They better not do fucking download. That would be a huge joke if they did.

Uhh, why?

Cos download is a crock of shit. It's an overpriced money grabbing festival put together by a bunch of suits. It doesn't really have Wacken's for fans by fans mentality. It would just be a shame if they were to do there return gig at a place like download. They would get an early slot second to a bunch of crappy bands. They deserve to return to the stage with a headlining slot with 60,000 onlookers all hyped up for thier return.

Kellan wrote:pbb meet in wacken?

I should be going next year, my house-mate is thinking about driving

Inferno and Wacken for me next year

threak wrote:

<THe_FeAR> wrote:

threak wrote:They better not do fucking download. That would be a huge joke if they did.

Uhh, why?

Cos download is a crock of shit. It's an overpriced money grabbing festival put together by a bunch of suits. It doesn't really have Wacken's for fans by fans mentality. It would just be a shame if they were to do there return gig at a place like download. They would get an early slot second to a bunch of crappy bands. They deserve to return to the stage with a headlining slot with 60,000 onlookers all hyped up for thier return.

Exactly. Carcass would be crammed for 20mins before Feeder or U2 play for 2 hours.

Download is a fucking shit festival and I too hope they realise this and avoid it.

I'll see ye's at Wacken!

Kellan wrote:pbb meet in wacken?

see you there buddy

We should get together at the Headbangers ballroom and fuckin' tear it up pbb style.

morgbite wrote:We should get together at the Headbangers ballroom and fuckin' tear it up pbb style.

you mean sit around being uncomfortably quiet?

Bren wrote:

morgbite wrote:We should get together at the Headbangers ballroom and fuckin' tear it up pbb style.

you mean sit around being uncomfortably quiet?

That could happen. Not with morg around tho.

Bren wrote:

morgbite wrote:We should get together at the Headbangers ballroom and fuckin' tear it up pbb style.

you mean sit around being uncomfortably quiet?

Nah. Atleast you could all have a good laugh at me being out of control drunk and offensive.

why the fuck is carcass back together? steer has made it clear that he has no interest in metal anymore so why is he wasting his time? he must need money real bad. they will probably play mostly heartwork songs anyway. they have more than one album, i wish everyone would remember that. fuck bill steer.

You're just pissed you're not going to see them

Bodom J wrote:why the fuck is carcass back together? steer has made it clear that he has no interest in metal anymore so why is he wasting his time? he must need money real bad. they will probably play mostly heartwork songs anyway. they have more than one album, i wish everyone would remember that. fuck bill steer.

who cares as long as he plays the fucking tunes and bangs his head like it's nineteen eighty motherfucking nine.

Bren wrote:

morgbite wrote:We should get together at the Headbangers ballroom and fuckin' tear it up pbb style.

you mean sit around being uncomfortably quiet?

A few drinks down the neck and we will be bashing the power metal dorks! But yes, awkward, nervous silence beforehand.

Bodom J wrote:why the fuck is carcass back together? steer has made it clear that he has no interest in metal anymore so why is he wasting his time? he must need money real bad. they will probably play mostly heartwork songs anyway. they have more than one album, i wish everyone would remember that. fuck bill steer.

I cant belive how much of a pointless cunt you are.

I really doubt they would only play songs from heartwork.

Everyone goes fucking mental at the ballroom when they dj plays 'warriors of the world'

Kellan wrote:pbb meet in wacken?

Yay.

Lumber Jack Off wrote:I really doubt they would only play songs from heartwork.

It would be awesome if they opened up with Buried Dreams though.

threak wrote: It would be awesome if they opened up with Buried Dreams though.

That's what they opened with in 1994

Sexcellent

Bren wrote:

threak wrote: It would be awesome if they opened up with Buried Dreams though.

That's what they opened with in 1994

It would rule. Coming on at about 11pm and then kicking in to that riff. People would go mental.

I would not be impressed.

I will be there hopefully

morgbite wrote:I would not be impressed.

then you'd get bitchslapped, bitch

I would be impressed really.

Brandon wrote:fuck. maybe i should go.

Yes! That would draw me to Wacken more than half the bands that will play

Wez wrote:

Brandon wrote:fuck. maybe i should go.

Yes! That would draw me to Wacken more than half the bands that will play

PBB meet

Bren wrote:PBB meet

We should all meet at mine and morgs set up. There will be about 12 of us going and we will be close to the arena